Synthetic Friends - Kempt, Hendrik
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This book explores the notion of whether we can be friends with machines in a philosophically meaningful way. Depending on our concept of friendship, we may be inclined to answer differently. Since social technology has made new forms of friendships possible between people across the globe, the author argues that the philosophical concept of friendship, forged thousands of years ago, should be re-examined. The author proposes a new approach to the debate that reflects the unique relationship we can build with machines as our synthetic friends.

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This book explores the notion of whether we can be friends with machines in a philosophically meaningful way. Depending on our concept of friendship, we may be inclined to answer differently. Since social technology has made new forms of friendships possible between people across the globe, the author argues that the philosophical concept of friendship, forged thousands of years ago, should be re-examined. The author proposes a new approach to the debate that reflects the unique relationship we can build with machines as our synthetic friends.

Autorenporträt
Hendrik Kempt is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Applied Ethics Group, RWTH Aachen University, where he received his PhD in 2023. His work focuses mainly on questions of the ethics of human-machine interaction, of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, and of technology in general. He has previously published the monographs "Chatbots and the Domestication of AI" (2020) as well as "Synthetic Friends - A Philosophy of Human-Machine Friendship" (2022), edited a book with Megan Volpert on "RuPaul's Drag Race and Philosophy", and has written several journal articles and book chapters on the issues of ethics of technology.
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"Regardless of whether the reader is predisposed to accept or reject the idea of synthetic friends, reading this book is time well spent." (Anthony J. Duben, Computing Reviews, April 13, 2023)